Sustainability-labeled US meats cost more, with premiums ranging from 7% to 33%
A new study published in PLOS One reports that sustainability labels on meat products are associated with substantially higher prices in the United States, but...
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Study finds extreme weather increasingly predicts North American bird species distributions
Extreme weather is redrawing the map of North American birdlife—and conventional biodiversity models may be missing the scale of the problem. A new Yale-led study...
Variation within species drives tropical forests’ resistance to drought
Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a new study suggests that this...
Cathepsin D Hijacking of IL2RG–JAK2 Signaling Disrupts Liver Insulin Action, Study Finds
Hepatic insulin resistance, a metabolic defect that can emerge years before type 2 diabetes, has been linked to a previously underappreciated enzyme that may disrupt...
Data artefacts may partly explain the observed decline in disruption
A new study in Nature is challenging a conclusion that has become increasingly common across science and technology: that disruptive events are becoming less frequent....
After Sandy, Household Fungal Exposure Linked to Asthma in New York Children
Superstorm Sandy did not end when the winds fell quiet. In New York City, floodwaters, damaged buildings, prolonged dampness and disrupted housing conditions continued to...
Physiological markers linked to levodopa emerge during deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease treatment is entering an era in which the brain may no longer be viewed as a static target, but as a continuously changing...
Rice researchers show graphene nanowrinkles can reshape electrical behavior
Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet of carbon into a landscape...
CDC Awards Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program More Than $3 Million
Louisiana Program Receives More Than $3 Million to Expand Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening A statewide cancer prevention program in Louisiana has received more than...
Astronomers Observe a Cosmic Recycling System in Action
An international team of astronomers has uncovered a previously hidden chapter in the life cycle of stars by observing fragments of stellar material being torn...
USC researchers create automated MRI system to advance stroke treatment research
A new MRI-based system could change how experimental stroke treatments are evaluated, allowing researchers to compare brain injury across thousands of laboratory animals with far...
Rapid wildfires reduce forests’ ability to recover, study finds
Wildfires moving at extreme speed may be doing more than expanding the burned area across western North America: they may be pushing forests past a...
Your Photos Could Help Scientists Make New Discoveries
A photograph uploaded to iNaturalist may look like an ordinary snapshot of a strange-looking arachnid, but thousands of such images have helped scientists uncover a...
Brain Mechanisms Underlying Compositional Control
A new study suggests that the brain may not choose between goals in continuous, real-world behaviour as if it were selecting a single option from...
Tunable Polymers Enable Organ-Selective RNA Delivery Using Polymer–Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles
RNA medicines are moving rapidly from experimental therapies toward practical treatments, but one of the field’s biggest obstacles remains the same: getting fragile genetic cargo...